Day 2 Camas Sgiotaig (Singing Sands) to Guirdil Bothy 18 miles

We woke up to a beautiful, warm day, and we all decided to abandon cags and paddle in T-shirts. We headed over to the south side of Rum; no exciting wildlife today during the crossing, but stunning reflections of the mountains in the glassy water.

We rounded the southern end of Rum and paddled up the west coast, eventually landing near Harris, close to the mausoleum of the Bullough family. A mad Lancastrian who inherited Rum from his father built a castle on the Island around the 1900s, he did some more stuff before being buried in the family Mausoleum. I wasn’t expecting a Doric temple on Rum.

The weather deteriorated a bit after lunch, and the blue sky and glassy calm of the morning were replaced with increasingly grey skies as we finally headed through an arch to Guirdlil Bay. We were met with a steep rocky shore, and enough waves to make the landing difficult, so we took to turns to land safely.